I don’t like to waste time, so while my laptop booted up today I read the last couple of chapters of Unofficial God. (errr … yes, the laptop DID take that long and so I had to delete some updates later in the day … but that’s another story)

I was struck by this quote from Frank Weston the Bishop of Zanzibar:

… if you are prepared to fight for the right of adoring Jesus in his Blessed Sacrament, then, when you come out from before your tabernacles, you must walk with Christ, mystically present in you, through the streets of this country, and find the same Christ in the peoples of your cities and villages. You cannot claim to worship Jesus in the tabernacle if you do not pity Jesus in the slum. You have your mass, you have your altars, you have begun to get your tabernacles. Now go into the highways and hedges, and look for Jesus in the ragged and the naked, in the oppressed and the sweated, in those who have lost hope, and in those who are struggling to make good.

Worship and mission are inseperable and feed each other says Bishop Brian. How inseperable should they be? Can we invisage worship being mission and mission being worship simultaneously?

I have always believed that our mission is a true indicator of our worshipful life with God. Our worship, whatever that may be, should be a life changing encounter with Creator God. If we come out of worship the same as we enter it, have we worshipped at all?